Deep Dive into FME DesktopMark Ireland, Product Evangelist
Tiana Warner, Technical Content Marketing
Why a Release Candidate?
A Release Candidate is a build with potential to be the final product and will become the official FME release if no issues are identified. The official release of FME 2017.0 is scheduled for March 1, 2017.
Download FME Desktop 2017 RC:
safe.com/beta
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic”
- Arthur C Clarke
It’s still magic, even if you know how it’s done
- Terry Pratchett
AgendaDeep Dive into FME Desktop
● On The Surface○ FME 2017.0 Quick Wins in action
● Diving Deeper (At The Abyssal Plain)○ Top usability enhancements○ Working with web, attributes, and
more
● Deep Down In An Oceanic Trench○ Real FME power○ Demo: Get up-to-date satellite
imagery for a user-selected city
On the surface
Revamped “Quick Add”
Transformer descriptions, plus add readers and writers.
Reorganized transformer gallery
Categories in the transformer gallery have been given a well deserved overhaul.
Parameter Editor window
Makes parameters dialog “modeless”.
See blog article for full information
Choose between Curvy, Manhattan, or Classic.
Toggle this under View > Cycle Connection Style.
connection line styles
Rejected Features
Choose whether to terminate or continue when features are rejected. (FME Options > Translation)
See blog article for full information.
DEMO
Diving deeper (At the abyssal plain)
More Web Services
Authenticate and save connection information for more web services (and databases, email accounts, FME Server instances).
Plus publish them to FME Server.
Browse remote data like a local filesystem
A360, Box, Dropbox, FME Server, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive.
CSV and other Feature Tables
New underlying technology that speeds up reading, writing, and transforming data.
Dates and Times
New DateTimeCalculator transformer, plus new date/time functions in text editors.
FME Data Inspector table view
Inspect a subset of the schema.
Navigate between feature types with a pull-down menu.
Choose which columns to see.
Named connection support for Server
Save connections to multiple FME Servers.
DEMO
Deep Down in an oceanic trench
New formats● Autodesk FBX (R/W)● BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) (R/W)● Cesium 3D Tiles (W)● glTF (W)● HTML Table (R)● IBM dashDB (R/W)● MapBox MBTiles (R/W)● MapInfo Extended TAB (R)● OGC Geopackage Raster Tiles (R/W)● OpenStreetMap PBF (R)● Planet (R)● QlikMaps (R/W)● Sentinel-2 on AWS (R)● STL (R/W)● New background map: Japan GSI Maps● New on OS X: Tableau (W), Collada (R/W)● New on Linux: Tableau (W)
New transformers
● AutodeskA360Connector● BoxConnector● DatabaseJoiner (renamed from Joiner)
● DropboxConnector (renamed from DropboxCaller)
● FMEServerResourceConnector● Geocoder● GoogleDriveConnector● GridInQuestIIReprojector● HTMLExtractor● LineBuilder (renamed from PointConnector)
● LineExtender (renamed from Extender)
● OneDriveConnector● PointCloudSimplifier● PointCloudSurfaceBuilder
Updated transformers
● RasterMosaicker – modes to handle overlapping pixels
● S3 transformers – more parameters including choice of region, accelerated mode
● GeometryValidator – new output ports, IssueLocations and InvalidParts
● ShortestPathFinder – more options and better performance
DEMO
Coming up for air
FME User Community
Deep Dive into FME ServerTuesday, February 21, 2017